[Mid-October 1921]

METALLURGICAL INDUSTRY

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NOTES ON YUGOSTAL*.
[Mid-October 1921]

NUMBER OF WORKERS at these 3 plants¹ (both mining and metallurgical) minimum (summer) 21,000 (approx.)
1. Oct. approx. 30,000\\
Communists approx. 500 ||

Wage now per month: 216,000
+ 200,000 coal
+ 200,000 overtime
per month (12 hrs.) = 616,000 rubles

Blast furnace worker = from 900,000 to 1/2 million
specialist (maximum) = 272 – 3 million
theft or handouts up to 10 million
1 ruble gold = 40,000
75 rubles gold = 3 million rubles Soviet
Bring specialist to 1.1.1922: maximum 40 million =
= 1000 rubles gold per month.

"Commercial Director" = in the main
administration
of 3 plants
("Yugostal") = assistant
manager...
(major merchant)
((on the basis of high, very highest specialist)).

Market realization = his main task.

¹ Three Donetsk giant plants: Petrovskii, Makeevskii, and Yuzovskii with their associated mines were united at a joint session of the Presidium of the Supreme Council of the National Economy and the Southern Bureau of the All-Union Central Council of Trade Unions on September 28, 1921 into a single powerful combine, in accordance with the adopted regulations on the Southern Metallurgical Trust "Yugostal." A board was created at the head of the trust. The leading article of the newspaper "Southern Metallurgist" No. 1, October 11, 1921, was devoted to this merger. In this same issue were printed the "Regulations" on "Yugostal" and two notes on the trust board and the forthcoming tasks of the trust: the compilation of a 3-year production program and material and monetary estimate. Lenin's notes, apparently,

* The notes were written by Lenin in the margins of the newspaper "Southern Metallurgist," on the right. On the left in the upper corner of the newspaper there is Lenin's notation: "Part to Yuzovskii and part to Debal'tsev." Ed.